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Coast Guard suspends Coastal Buoy Modernization Plan

October 22, 2025

BARNSTABLE - The Coast Guard has closed the comment period early for their navigational buoy modernization plan. It called for the removal of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Local News, NewsCenter, Top Story Tagged With: Barnstable, Coast Guard, Maritime, ocean, Sea

Regional Commissioners join Assembly Delegates in opposing buoy removal

June 16, 2025

CHATHAM - The Barnstable County Board of Regional Commissioners has voted to send a letter opposing the Coast Guard’s proposed removal of about 30 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Local News, NewsCenter Tagged With: Barnstable County Assembly of Delegates, Barnstable County Commissioners, boating, Maritime, public safety, U.S. Coast Guard

VIDEO: Right Whale Reported Dead Off Martha’s Vineyard | Provincetown Proposes Dissolving Pier Committee

January 31, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--5_iLtMY5E The latest in Cape Cod news. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Local News, NewsCenter Tagged With: Cape Cod, Cape Cod News, Cape News, IFAW, MacMillan Pier, Maritime, North Atlantic right whales, ocean, Right Whales, Seas, whales

Commercial Fishermen Need More Support for Substance Abuse and Fatigue, Lawmakers Say

December 13, 2023

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A federal program that protects the health and wellbeing of commercial fishermen should be expanded to include substance use … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Local News, NewsCenter, Top Story Tagged With: Cape Cod, Coast, fishermen, fishing, Hyannis, Marine, Maritime, ocean, Sea

As U.S. East Coast Ramps Up Offshore Wind Power Projects, Much Remains Unknown

September 12, 2023

POINT PLEASANT BEACH,N.J. (AP) — As the U.S. races to build offshore wind power projects, transforming coastlines from Maine to South Carolina, much … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Local News, NewsCenter Tagged With: Blue Economy, Business, Cape Cod, energy, environment, Green Energy, Maritime, Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket, offshore wind, wind

Another Offshore Wind Project Terminates Contracts, Plans to Rebid

September 5, 2023

HYANNIS - The burgeoning offshore wind industry hit another snag this week after another developer of a project just South of Martha’s Vineyard filed … [Read more...]